Saturday, August 01, 2015

Last week yet another petition for certiorari was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging the government's accommodation for religious non-profits who object to the Affordable Care Act's required contraceptive coverage. This is the sixth certiorari petition raising the issue that has been filed. (Becket Fund's tabulation of cases.) This petition (full text) was in Southern Nazarene University v. Burwell. In the case, the 10th Circuit (in an opinion covering appeals in three cases) upheld the accommodation, finding that it does not substantially burden the non-profits' religious exercise. (See prior posting.) [Thanks to Marty Lederman via Religionlaw for the lead.]